Tag Archives: Andy Coulson

January 22, 2016Comments Off on Andy Coulson sets up new PR firm Coulson Chappell

Former News of the World editor and UK government communications director Andy Coulson (below) – sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in the phone hacking scandal that saw the demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World ...

July 1, 2014Comments Off on “They all knew about it” says News of the World’s Thurlbeck as he speaks after phone hacking verdicts

It was, indeed, “slightly sad,” as phone hacking trail judge Lord Justice Saunders remarked, that former New of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck (left, who pleaded guilty to phone hacking along with some NoW colleagues) had chosen to give ...

June 24, 2014Comments Off on Andy Coulson convicted of phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks and co found innocent

What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...

January 28, 2014Comments Off on Phone hacking spotlight falls on Trinity Mirror papers

A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution, claimed that he had hacked ...

January 6, 2014Comments Off on Grey unveils lively New Year campaign for the Sun – but it’s still too bossy for its own good

It’s going to be a big year for the Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in the UK, one of the more profitable planks of his hived-off print business News Corp. The phone and computer hacking and corrupt payments trial of senior ...

A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and concealing evidence of ...

*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring ...

November 30, 2012Comments Off on Leveson solution does the job – but PM Cameron and the Press mafia will kick it into the long grass

LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication ...

I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze ...